Issue 288 - Rust after the honeymoon (22)

Blades: A 'Blazing Fast' Simple Static Site Generator Built with Rust — You might want to think of this as Rust’s answer to the popular Go-powered Hugo although this claims to be “up to 10 times faster” still(!)

Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions (in Preview) — A mechanism to deeply integrate Lambda with monitoring, observability, and security tools (e.g. Epsagon, Hashicorp, other AWS tools).

Announcing the NGINX Core Collection for Ansible — An officially supported collection of roles for deploying NGINX with Ansible.

Introducing NGINX Service Mesh (NSM) — A fully integrated lightweight service mesh that uses a data plane powered by NGINX Plus to manage container traffic in Kubernetes environments.

JuliaMono: A New Typeface for Developers — There’s a lot to enjoy in this font originally created to be revealed at JuliaCon 2020 but now freely available for us to use and enjoy. It’s packed with useful mathematical symbols, alphabets, alternate characters, etc.

Rust After The Honeymoon — We’re very bullish on Rust here, but it always pays to have a sense of perspective and Bryan (of DTrace fame) provides some great insight into the highs and lows he’s experienced with the language.

Amazon Pays $108 Million for Amateur Radio (AMPRnet) IP Addresses — The President of Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) has announced they received $108 million from Amazon for 4 million amateur radio TCP/IP addresses (so $27 per IP). If you were to extrapolate this to all usable IPv4 space, its ‘market cap’ would be north of $100bn.

Chrome Is Deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC — The next version of HTTP only runs over QUIC, a multiplexed transport protocol running on UDP. Google is seeing worthwhile latency improvements with it so are pushing ahead with standardized IETF QUIC support in Chrome (in addition to their existing ‘Google QUIC’). Newsworthy, but for the average webmaster this area remains mostly offer the radar for now.

Google Cloud Run Now Supports HTTP/gRPC Server Streaming — You can now stream large or partial responses from Google’s ‘run containers in a serverless fashion’ Run service to clients. And in other Google Cloud news, they’ve rolled out support for buildpacks making it easier to create container images from source code without a Dockerfile.

Loading CSV Files at the Speed Limit of NVMe Storage — Can CSVs be processed with a parallel algorithm? Yes.

Open Source Licensing and Why Plausible is Going AGPL — We linked to Plausible recently as an interesting, open source, privacy-friendly alternative to tools like Google Analytics, but its creators have run into issues with the permissive MIT license and are now moving the project to GNU AGPLv3. Worth reading if you’re wrestling with license complications too.

Raft Is So Fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through Mean Girls — If you don’t like playful explanations, move on because this will get confusing fast, but if Mean Girls means something to you, this is a noble attempt to make the Raft consensus algorithm more relatable(!)

Experiment with Exchanging UDP Messages in the Browser — This is a page from Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course that’s still under development. Built with Rust and WebAssembly, this is worth a quick play.

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record — “After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.” (Though by an absolutely minuscule amount, it breaks a ‘theoretical logjam.’)

Kubernetes in 30 Minutes — Not a ‘from scratch’ guide as such, more a cheat sheet to getting an app deployed and running on a basic self-managed Kubernetes setup quickly.

Visidata 2.0: A Terminal Spreadsheet Multitool for Discovering and Arranging Data — Here’s an introductory tutorial to what you can use this for.

Bit: An Experimental, Modern CLI for Git — Brings some extra niceties to the idea of git, including file and branch name autocompletion, command and flag suggestions, and even some new commands.

Reduce MTTR By Linking Infrastructure Dashboards Directly To Logs — New Relic forwards logs straight from the agent for aggregation, tailing and correlation. Simplify your logging story.

Lead DevOps or SRE — We are a remote, open-source, mission-driven company building developer tools for IPFS, Filecoin, and the decentralized web.

Do You Need Golang or Kubernetes Training? — On-site corporate training. Having trained over 4,000 engineers since 2013, we've crafted classes for students to get as much as possible.

Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.